Winter 2014 - Corning Meals on Wheels

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Greetings all,
The winter holidays are here! It’s the day before Thanksgiving, and thanks to your
support, Corning Meals on Wheels volunteers and staff are about to deliver freshly
prepared thanksgiving-style meals to your homebound and frail senior neighbors in
need. While today is a bit special, our dedicated volunteers put our mission into
action throughout the year; striving to nurture health, dignity and independent living
among people who need meals delivered to their homes. We are able carry on our
charitable purpose only through the generosity of you and others in our community.
We do receive some government support; however, that subsidy comes out to only
78 cents per meal. While it is most appreciated, 78 cents doesn’t buy much these
days. With increasing prices for groceries, rent, and insurance, so far in 2014 it has
cost us, on average, $4.92 to prepare each delicious & nutritious meal for our homebound seniors. When I say nutritious & delicious, you needn’t take my word for it.
The county’s dietitian certifies each meal provides 1/3 of the RDA. As for taste, take
it from our seniors, like Mr. K, a 92 year old WWII veteran who reports the food is
“Wonderful! Better than my mom used to make.” So on behalf of Mr. K & all the
seniors we serve, and the volunteers & staff who serve them, thank you for helping
us help those who need meals delivered to their homes this holiday season and
throughout the year. Please consider making a donation today…you can make a
difference in the lives of your homebound and frail neighbors in need.
Subaru Share the Love
Wish List
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CMoW HOLIDAY
CLOSINGS
December 25th
January 1st
Warmest Regards,
David
We at Corning Meals on Wheels, along with Meals on Wheels of Chemung County,
are partnering with Simmons Rockwell Subaru this holiday season to help our homebound & frail senior neighbors in need. During this year’s Share the Love event, for
every new Subaru sold or leased between Nov 20th and Jan 2nd, Subaru of America
will donate $250 to the customer's choice of five national level charities, including
the Meals on Wheels Association of America. As Subaru Share the Love event charitable partners, our local Meals on Wheels programs are eligible to compete for Share
the Love grants from the Meals on Wheels Association of America! Our local events
begin on December 5th. Check out our Facebook page (www.facebook/CMoWs ) or
web page (www.cmowheels.com) to learn how you can help us Share the Love.
Scan to add us
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Thank you to everyone
who brought us fresh fruits
& vegetables! Our seniors
enjoyed the garden fresh
apples, cucumbers, bell
peppers, eggplant, garlic,
green beans, summer squash,
tomatoes, and zucchini. This
helps us save on our food
costs and serve fresh locally
grown nutritious food.
Corning Meals on Wheels Inc. is:
A United Way Agency and an affiliate of the NYS Office for Aging,
Administration on Aging and the Steuben County Office For Aging.
www.facebook.com/CMoWs
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New Volunteers: 
Wish List:
Muffin Tins
Kitchen: Richard & Rosemary Wolter, Sharon Abbott,
Janet McKerrow
Meal Delivery: Judy Jerulli, June Eastland, Sara Ellison, Thank you to Gary McCaslin for fulfilling a wish from our last
newsletter. The covered steamer pan is perfect!
Ashley Hamilton
Adopt a Route: A big thank you to the Corning branch of Elmira Savings Bank for delivering a route once a month. If
you are interested in your business adopting a route once a week, or once a month, please give us a call! A great day for this
would be a Wednesday. Break up the monotony of the week to put a smile on the faces of some grateful seniors in our area.
This is a great lunch time activity! Give us a call at 962-7985 or email us at [email protected].
Christ Church Grant for Operations!
We are very grateful to Christ Episcopal Church’s Mission Committee for granting us $2,500 to help fund
operations! Special thanks also to CMoW volunteer and Christ Church member, Barbara Cook, for
sponsoring our grant application. This very generous grant will buy groceries and packaging for 1,506
nutritious, freshly prepared meals for the homebound and frail seniors in our area.
Cards for our Seniors
Friendship Baptist Church’s Women's Ministry has been providing birthday, get well, and sympathy cards for us to send out
to our seniors, and in some cases their families. Thank you Deloris Folk for faithfully sending them to us every month!
Two young ladies, Lauren & Ashley, made beautiful cards for our seniors (see Page 4). The girls delivered meals with their
grandparents, too. Thank you Lauren and Ashley! We would also like to thank Diane Nessle for regularly bringing us a
variety of cards for our seniors!
Blizzard Bag Collection
Our neighbors at Christ Episcopal Church collected items for our clients’ blizzard bags.
The donated shelf-stable foods will help ensure our seniors are well prepared should we
not be able to deliver due to winter weather. Pictured at left are church members and
CMoW volunteers (L-R) Paula Gullo, Bill Scheidweiler, Deb Townsend, and Bev Frost.
Farewell after more than 35 years of service!
In September we bid farewell to volunteer Janet Simon. She’s pictured at
left with Chef Brian Rook & Executive Director David Smith, and at right
with the Tuesday kitchen crew. We thank Janet for her decades of service
and wish her & her husband well as they relocate to be with family.
We want your old inkjet & toner
printer cartridges and cell phones!
Bring your used printer cartridges and cell
phones (ANY condition) into our office or the
UPS store and help us to raise money to feed
the hungry and recycle at the same time!!
Eyeglasses and Hearing Aids Collection
The Lions Club is a generous donor to our program. The glasses
are collected and sent to developing countries where they are needed the
most. The hearing aids are refurbished and recycled locally and are
available to those individuals in need. Please bring in any unused glasses
or hearing aids to us, and we will pass them along to the Lions Club.
Thank you to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade students at Tuscarora Elementary School in Addison, NY for making double sided
holiday placemats for the seniors. Many thanks to Krissy Hamilton, a teacher at the school and daughter of long-time
CMoW volunteers Tom & Sherri Gehl, for organizing this effort. These gifts brings many smiles to our homebound seniors.
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TRIBUTE GIFTS & CONTRIBUTIONS
June 18, 2014 - November 18, 2014
FROM
IN MEMORY OF
GIFTS FROM:
Carolyn Adams
Sue Blazejewski
Ed & Louise Bush
John Carlineo family
Nancy Doutt
Bev Frost
Mr. & Mrs. Joe Gallo
Tom & Sherry Gehl
Betty Hess
Betty Hess
Dave & Judy Iocco
Dave & Judy Iocco
Clint & Lois Janes
Jon & Evelyn Krebs
Jon & Evelyn Krebs
Edward & Carol Lincoln
Sharon Little
John & Karen Madison
Carol Nalepa
Camilla D. Nessle
Susan Roll
Susan Roll
Susan Roll
Eugene Saunders
Vincent & Eleanor Sementilli
Colleen Slack
Lisa Smith
Lisa Smith
William & Sheila Spak
Dr. Steve & Nancy Staggs
Chris & Deb Townsend
Chris & Deb Townsend
Alan & Mary Wakeman
Mike & Carolyn Zaschak
Mike & Carolyn Zaschak
Rosemary Peelle
Charlie Hess
Loris Sawchuk
June Davis
Charlie Hess
Charlie Hess
Charlie Hess
Charlie Hess
Charlie Hess
Anthony Coasurdo
Genevieve Szczepankowski
Betty Bryan Domko
Charlie Hess
Bryan J. Lanahan
Genevieve Szczepankowski
Charlie Hess
Brenda Adams Zimmer
Regina Baker
Hazel Stewart
Rosemary Peelle
Julie Albertalli
Carole Reif
Julia Wesselhoft
Bryan Lanahan
Charlie Hess
Leland Stewart
Doris Stephens
Charlie Hess
Bill & Pauline Spak
Charlie Hess
Danny Nunez
Mary O'Connor
Charlie Hess
Bryan Lanahan
Genevieve Szczepankowski
FROM
IN HONOR OF
Alfred Delluomo
Camilla D. Nessle
Chris & Deb Townsend
Mark Delluomo
Karen Fusco
Anne Price's birthday
AJ's Hair & Make-Up
American Legion, Skinner-Ernest Post
Frank Anastasio
Russell Bancroft
Sonja Beall
Bob Evans Farms, Inc.
Bill Boland
Dave & Joan Boxall
Rozalind Brack
Tami Caruso
Chemung Canal Trust Company
Chemung & Steuben County
Combined Federal Campaign
Christ Episcopal Church
- Missions Committee
Dan & Sarah Collins
Gail Cordes
Corning Inc. Global Supply Mgmt Group
- Jeans Day
Vera Dauman
Elwyn & Ethelyn Eaton
Floyd & Carolyn English
Beverly Frost
Kathryn Gerwig
Nancy Golomb
Harrold Family Foundation
Sriram Jagadeesh Hathwar
Elwyn & Jane Jimerson
Don Leonard
Edgar & Evelyn Lewis
Market St. Trust Company
Gary & Anne McCaslin
F. Brockett & Margaret Morey
Jim Murphy
Thomas & Barbara O'Brien
Bob & Ginny Ohl
Gary & Patricia Pease
Richard Peck
William Plummer
Margie Rose
Steve & Nancy Staggs
Steuben County SEFA
USW - Local 1000
Peg Wilson
Jean Wosinski
15th Annual Crystal City Duck Race Winners:
Place
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
Ticket Ticket Holder
1140
Cassie Fairchild
1346
Dave Boxall
1267
Barbara Oplinger
1374
Anne McCaslin
0440
Ellen O’Hare
1263
Anita Cotter
0183
Father Lewis Brown
1335
Bob & Linda Taylor
0280
Robert & Colleen Hull
On behalf of the seniors we serve and the volunteers who serve them, a
big “Thank You” to all of our Duck Race ticket holders, volunteers and
race sponsors. Thanks to you, we raised $9,600! The money raised will
fund 2,313 meals for our homebound & frail senior neighbors in need.
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STAFF
Executive Director
David W. Smith
Kitchen Supervisor
Brian Rook
Assistant to the Director
Lisa Carl
Administrative Assistant
Amanda Taylor
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President
Rich Graham
Vice President
Ronald Klokus
Treasurer
Michele Corby
Secretary
Melissa Colacino
Fr. Ian Adkins
John Brown
Katherine Funk
Mary Beth Maxa
David Moses
Jackie Rossi
Jennifer Salley Ruland
Lisa Smith
Terrence Wilson
Harriet, born in 1917, continues to live in her home
thanks to Corning Meals on
Wheels volunteers and generous donors like you!
Left, Director
David Smith
hands Cassie
Fairchild her
first place
prize winnings
of $300. She
also won a
glass pedestal
bowl from the
Erlacher
Collection.
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Corning Meals on Wheels, Inc
144 Cedar St
Corning, NY 14830
(607)962-7985
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